Solving Nikonos V TTL problems

Peter Rowlands · Issue 2, Oct/Nov 2001 · pp. 32–33

Products mentioned: Nikonos V, Nikonos III, Nikonos IVa, Isopropanol, CL40

The sad news that Nikon are to discontinue the Nikonos V makes it all the more neccessary to look after your existing cameras. The manual which comes with the camera is helpful enough but there are some tips they don’t tell you about but UwP will! The TTL flash contacts are probably the biggest cause of exposure failures and care should always be taken when removing a sync cord from the socket, especially just after the camera has been taken out of a rinse tank. The small gap between the centre of the flash plug and the threaded part you screw into the camera socket will almost certainly retain a small amount of water. If you unscrew the sync cord with the camera upside down this water could drop into the flash socket. On a Nikonos 111 or 1Va this would not be a major problem and a small burst of low pressure air would expel the unwanted water. The problem with the Nikonos V is that the …